It is far from perfect, but I wrote a quick guide on setting up an #Openbsd #router
"Building a Simple Router with OpenBSD"
https://btxx.org/posts/openbsd-router/
Includes setting up #adblock and avoiding Strict NAT on my Xbox console (hooray for online play!)
#AdBlock #AugmentedReality #CoolTech
Someone built an ad blocker for real life
1. #AdBlock and #Tracking Blocking on Android is easy.
Use a Browser like #Ironfox with #UBlockOrigin in advanced mode, and block known tracking Javascript that way.
Solved, no #Metapixel, #GoogleAnalytics, #YandexMetrica, #CloudflareInsights and whatever else exists out there. It is blocked from loading or executing, so it can't listen on your localhost either.
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@timnitGebru <https://archive.md/YAMUI> removes the modal Advert, if you #AdBlock.
Kleines Sharepic gebastelt für Familiengruppen u.a.
Werbung auf Android blockieren in 30s
Nach Anleitung von @kuketzblog danke!
Manchmal fühlt sich der Kampf für die (eigene) #informationelleSelbstbestimmung - den #Datenschutz - aussichtslos an,
ich möchte daher daran erinnern, dass auch kleine Schritte etwas bewirken können:
* Nutzt einen Ad- und Tracking-Blocker (#uBlockOrigin)
* Ändert die Standardsuchmaschine(auch wenn ihr diese nicht zu 100% nutzt) (#DuckDuckGo #Ecosia #Qwant #SwissCows)
* Wechselt den #Browser(#FireFox #Brave #LibreWolf)
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Ok now I'm confused. After installing DuckDuckGo browser and enabled the App Tracking Protection. I now see that it is blocking trackers coming from the Waterfox browser, which should be blocking trackers already, especially when the Enhanced Tracking Protection is enabled.
#AdBlock #Trackers #Spam #Protection
@Waterfox (have I done something wrong or is this normal)
@TheBreadmonkey (added you since you pointed out DuckDuckGo to me)
#Hamburg. Ab jetzt mit Videoclips.
Unterstütze Hamburg #Werbefrei - den #Adblocker für unsere #Stadt.
Silly name, but the #pihole is a great way to block ads on every device in your home. If anyone needs any tips to get started let me know.
@fesshole Pro-tip, install a local pi-hole on mobile devices (which leave your local network, which could have it's network wide pi-hole) so that not only browsers are protected, but the whole device. It also makes websites not detect you have an adblocker so you can browse freely.
While participants saw benefits like improved focus and privacy, concerns around missing important information and isolation also emerged.
Our findings highlight the need for intuitive #XR ad-blocking controls and we provide guidelines for future content-blocking XR design.
Read the full paper here: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/121943
#AdBlocking #AugmentedReality #Advertising #DiminishedReality #AdBlock #ExtendedReality
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Politics had totally changed, instead of having politicians, you only had puppets for the big tech companies: all those puppets did, was make sure that it's companies kept getting more financially powerful, and kept getting even more invasive, as if that were even possible
I mean they were a literally up your digestive track already, all the way to your spinkster.
Don't let me talk about flying; it takes you literally 72 hours to book a ticke; 8 hours a day you have to follow those dreadful procedures of which 90% is just ads, to finally get the seat booked with six screens pointed at you only bombarding you with advertisements.
Trains were even worse; Walls of screens, almost no place to sit, let alone sit comfortably.
In busses they left you alone, but what they did, is make the bus almost totally transparent and make sure that all the of the massive screens at the buildings were pointing at you, giving out all your personal information for everyone else to see, including your menstrual cycle, the size of your prostate, and everything else that's supposed to be medically sealed, just to show you walls and walls of advertisements regarding those medical status parameters.
And do not think that when you're finally at home sleeping, away from your dreadful job, and asleep that you sleep cycle was normal
Remember those devices that implanted in you at Birth? Those devices injected at advertisements in your dreams making your sleep horrific and tiring.
Suicide rates were skyrocketing; it was normal to lose a friend every month who succumbed to suicide because of the horrific carpet bombing advertisements raids. There were more psychiatrists than regular physicians. Funeral parlors were the only places where business was booming for the private sector, owned by fairly regular people.
Mercedes-Benz almost exclusively made funeral cars because that's what's sold the most and the best and asked for the most, by those who could still afford cars
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I've just woken up from a horrific IT Nightmare.
Only commercial companies were providing services on the internet, Open Source did not exist, Linus Torvalds was never born, Netscape has never come into fruition.
Every website you went to you have to go through 12 pages of advertisements bombarding you with all the flashes all the sounds and even even HTML5 did not exist everything was Flash!
There are only two browsers available Google Chrome and Microsoft Internet Explorer. Browser extensions were non-existent; everybody went on the internet like a drone and endured the horrific bombardment of advertisements like carpet bombs falling on your mind, as if you were in Vietnam, getting bombarded by The Enemy Flying B-52 fortresses.
All the Services constantly changed their end-user license agreement, your mobile devices had eight cameras pointed at you and none to the outside world. Those devices also had seven microphones of which the worst was used for you to talk into with your people and Friends, the six others were used to listen to you environment and sent everything outside.
Tracking devices were planted in your body at Birth, you are constantly itching because of all those devices in your system, giving you skin irritation and making your complexion like that of sandpaper.
Even going outside in your garden was horrific, micro drones were constantly following you, listening and looking at everything you do, even if you don't have any mobile devices on you.
Stores were even worse, everything you bought had tracking and tracing, even The Food you ate had tracking, and traces were going to your digestive track all the way to the toilet.
And while you were sitting there you had to endure advertisements for every time you use the toilet.
There were 12 financially Rich families on the planet everyone else was economic slave.
All religions were converted to advertisement bombardment Systems and to subjugation of people to Ads
^Z
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Jeśli jeszcze nie wiesz, że routery także można uwolnić i używać z powodzeniem jeszcze przez długi czas zamiast je wyrzucać, to koniecznie przeczytaj ten wpis. Dzisiejszym tematem będzie OpenWRT, czyli dowiecie się czym jest ten system oraz jak łatwo wgrać go na nasze urządzenia sieciowe.
Zapraszam do lektury!
https://wolnoscwkieszeni.pl/uwolnic-router-openwrt/
#openwrt #luci #router #linux #netgear #tplink #adblock #vpn #nas
Fighting for the open web by David Revoy @davidrevoy
Firefox versus Chrome
Download full image:
https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/viewer/misc__2023-07-27_Fighting-For-The-Open-Web_by-David-Revoy.html
#firefox #chrome #opensource #ublock #adblock
An exploratory fly-by of Pi-Hole 6
—The Register
｢ Pi-hole takes over as your network's name server, and silently redirects all web requests to known ad-server addresses to a DNS sinkhole. Everything else is passed upstream to the public DNS server of your choice. Only requests for ads silently fail, and the rest of the page loads as normal. The result is you see fewer ads ｣
On Linux I've tried/used the following browsers to replace Firefox:
- Zen (Firefox)
- Floorp (Firefox)
- Librewolf (Firefox)
- Vivaldi (chromium)
For the last several months I've been using Floorp and am happy with it. I use Librewolf for accessing Meta.
On Android I've used Firefox for day to day and Waterfox for accessing Meta.
IANAL: my concern is how much of the new Mozilla TOS is directly applicable to Firefox forks.
The new TOS reads like Mozilla is legally allowed to 'tee' anything you upload to their own information horde, including anything binary.
Also, something I've noticed is that sometimes when Mozilla upstream makes TOS/marketing/affiliate changes via about:config changes those changes get pushed downstream and if the downstream team misses it in the rush to get the new version out the door you may end up with these settings re-enabled.
I tried Vivaldi yesterday. Ad blocking isn't sufficient to use it as a daily driver browser. Unusable for me.
Eyes to the future for open source browser engines.
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